Chap, 478. Englijh Herbs. 
Frail-weed. 6 . Spar turn Verba ah c rum molliiK 
Plinij , Spartum Herba Plinij alterum , Gramcn 
Span aim fecundumfannicula brcvi foUicuh inclufa 
bauhini , The Idler Spanilh Rulh, or Mat-weed, 
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The Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or Our Englilh Mat-weed. Its 
Roots creep in the Ground , and ffien themfelves 
firongly therein-. It has divers long, hard, and very 
Iharp pointed Rulhes, pieroing their Legs who go 
among them that are not Booted. The Stalks have 
loft fpiked long Heads, like unto the Ears of Rye 
and Blooming like it alfo. 
IV. The Jecond , or Our other Sea Mat-weed. 
Its Roots creep likewife under the Ground , and are 
firongly f fined to the Earth , as the others are: 
and this Mat-weed is in the growing like the for- 
mer, but that the Rulhes are broader and fhorter 
and fo alfo the Heads or fpikes. 
V. The third, or Small Mat-weed. The Roots of 
this are likewife long, hard, and fomewhat tough 
fit to be wrought into little Baskets or the like It 
has (hotter, imaller, and harder Rulhes : theSralks 
are about a loot and a half high, having fmall 
thin, long Spikes, and harder at the tops than the 
former. 
VI. The fourth , or Our fmalleft Englilh 
Mat-weed. The Roots are long and yellow like 
the former fmall Englijh Kind. From which rife 
up many fmall, Render, round Rulhes, like 
Threads, almolt 4 or 5 Inches long, growing thick 
together; among which, the Stalks which are 
very fmall, have fmaller Heads, and (ingle; that is 
conhlting but of one or two fmall Rows. 
V F' Iff ^ Spanilh Mat-weed or Frail- 
weed. lhe Roots fpread in the Ground into many 
Tujts, matting therein , that in fame places they 
take up two feet fquare oj Ground or more : From 
whieh rife up a number of round Rulhes, a fbot 
and a half long, each of which is parted a little 
above the Ground, into 5 or 4, or more. Render 
long, tough, and green Rulhes, fomething broader 
at the firlt, being whitilh in the middle, which 
foon after have both their edges fo drawn together 
that it makes them feem round, fo that the Parti- 
tion is fcarcely dilcerned , and then grow harder 
and whmlh when they are dry (as we fee them 
in Railon Frails, tsc. and in the round Matts 
with which the Floors of Chambers are Marred as 
they are wrought there, and brought over here’ to 
us) from among which rife up feveral Stalks 
lomething higher than the Leaves, bearing at the 
top a fmall long Head of many Iharp pointed 
Husks-, after which come fmall long Seed like 
unto fome other Grades. 
VIII. Vie fixth, or Leffer Spanilh Rulh or 
Mat-weed. I he Roots of this do matt like the 
other, but grow in motfier places. From whence 
rile up the Rulhes or Frails in the very fame 
manner and order as the other Spanilh kind do ; 
Theie Rulhes are more fine and Render fofter al- 
io, and bear a fhorter Tuft at the Top, breaking 
out of a fhining Husk or Hofe. 6 
IX. The Places. The firft, fecond, third, and 
fourth, grow very well with us in England-, very 
plentifully on the Coafts of Norfolk, and Suffolk, 
0ther places on the Sea Shore. tlnd 
the firlt them has been found growing alfo in the 
(Re Of Tenet, near the Sea fide, between alfo 
Marget and Sandwich , the two laft grow in Spain, 
the Canaries , Madera's, and other warm Cii- 
mares. 
X. The Times. They bear or bring forth their 
Heads in the middle , and towards the latter end 
or Summer. 
The Virtues and ‘ZJfes. 
XI. Thefe Plants are all ufelefs in Phyfick 
as haying no known Medical Virtue, and alfo 
hurt.ul to Cartel, but ferve to make Matts and 
trails Withall. 
CHAP. CCCCLXXVIJI. 
Of maudlin, 
1. ’T' U E Karnes. It is called in Greek 
± A^eow : in Latine, Ageratum : (quafl non 
u ne Jf. ens > Senettutum non Sentiens ; becaufe 
the blowers thereof gathered in a fit time, will not 
Alaldfn 01 ^ ^ Age:) ani !n 
II. The Kinds. Authors make about five fe- 
veral lpecies hereof, viz. 1. Ageratum Dioficoridis 
Cameron, Cajloris Durant is, Gefnen, Lugdunen- 
Jts, Matthioli , Tabcrnamontani-, Eupatorium Me- 
JfifJ i Bafatnita ftemina , & minor , Dodonni - 
Cofius Hortenfis minor Gefneri ; Mentha Corym- 
btf era minor Cordi-, Camphor at a Cafalpini-, Herba Julia 
AngutllaralK Gefneri-, IK Eupatorium ntefues Gef- 
nen Loniceri, Matthioli & Tragi-, and infhort, this 
IS that Plant, which moft of the bell and latter 
Writers, or Authors affirm to be the true Agera- 
tum DioJcoridU , and the true Eupatorium Mefues 
and is our Ageratum Vu/gare or Common Maudlin 
2. Ageratum Flore a/bo, Ageratum fecundum Lur- 
dunenfis, iK Matthioli ; Ageratum Fhrtbus Candi- 
d's Lobehj Camerarij , IK Tabernnmontani , oar 
white Flowered Maudlin. 3. Ageratum minus Lo- 
bell] , Camerarij , Cf Tabernimontani - Ageratum 
Joins non ferratis Bauhini ; Small Maudlin. 4. 
Ageratum pUrpureum Lugduncnfm • Ageratujn 
/erratum Alpinum Bauhini: MofchafelU cxrulea 
Gcrmanorum (but it is not the Mofchatella Cordi) 
rurple Sweet Maudlin. 5. Ageratujn ferulace- 
ujji Lugdunenfiis • Chryfanthe mum Alpinum folik 
Abrotam Mult if dk , Fennel Leav’d Maudlin. 
This fort Bauhinus referrs to the Achillea Mon- 
tana Arthemifit tenuifoli <e facie Lobelii , and to the 
Achillea Montana Lugdunenfm CT Tabernamon * 
tarn. 
The Defer igttons. 
HI- The fir/i , or Our Common Maudlin. It 
bar tnany Roots truth Fibres adjoined , which are 
long , lafling , or abiding all Winter for fome 
years. It is fomewhat like to Coflmary , (of which 
T 1 1 1 2 it 
